I have a Mac and I cannot get mods to work. It worked fine when I had a PC, and my mods are working fine on all my other Sims games. I've followed the instructions multiple times to ensure I've done it correctly. Everything is where it should be, but the mods aren't working. Can anyone help?

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Originally Posted by nicjmartin

I have a Mac and I cannot get mods to work. It worked fine when I had a PC, and my mods are working fine on all my other Sims games. I've followed the instructions multiple times to ensure I've done it correctly. Everything is where it should be, but the mods aren't working. Can anyone help?

I was running into this question myself (trying to be sure I've installed the mods correctly the first time) and found this thread via Google. Going to try it myself, hope it helps!

[Edit] I recommend creating an alias (for you Windows users, that's Apple's term for a shortcut) for the TSM Mods folder and placing it somewhere on your desktop, so it's easier to find.

I know for a fact ive done everything right so far, I mod my sims 3 game all the time! Everything is in the right folder, everything is named right, game says it's fully updated, but when I go to create a character none of my custom content shows up. Just absolutely nothing. Ive got the mod folder in the installation folder, packages inside that, resource.cfg in the install directory, the .dll in the /bin/ folder. Absolutely nothing, its infuriating!

It won't run ANY of my mods. Please help and tell me what I might have done wrong.

Did you happen to replace that resource.cfg in the bin folder? Because they're not the same resource as the one that you're meant to have at the ''installation folder". Open that resource in your bin folder via notepad. Does the resource.cfg (the one in the bin folder) has this:

If yes, idk I know that's definitely the wrong resource on that bin folder. Don't know how replace that or anything. If not, then from what the other previous post from this thread it may either be an outdated mod or a corrupt mod. May have to do a process of elimination. Hope that helps.

I need help i just recently started playing the sims and I've NEVER installed mods before I have done everything it says to do but I can't seem to do it right. It might be because i'm installing CC hair but the creator told me to come here. I have went throught this page to try and figure out whats wrong and to see if I could figure it out but I haven't.

2) Set up your Mod folder. To do this, open your TSM installation folder and create a new folder named "Mods". Important: Mods do not (as of yet) work in the \My Documents\ folder where TSM saves some data, so be absolutely certain to go to your installation folder!

I noticed there seems to be a lot of confusion on how to successfully enable testingcheats or load mods for TSM so I blatantly copied some info in an attempt to help beginners to get everything to work properly. I hope this is useful to anyone.

First steps:

1) Patch your game. Rick's Debug Enabler does not work with the unpatched game.
2) Set up your Mod folder. To do this, open your TSM installation folder and create a new folder named "Mods". Important: Mods do not (as of yet) work in the \My Documents\ folder where TSM saves some data, so be absolutely certain to go to your installation folder!
Now create a new folder within the "Mods" folder called "Packages".
3) Now you need to add a resource.cfg file to your main TSM install folder, so the game knows you have mods and where to look for them. It is basically a text file that serves the same function it did in TS3 and contains the following:

4) Now you're all set up! This will load most of the current TSM mods. Put the *.package files into your Mods\Packages\ directory. You can use subfolders if you like. Subfolders will not work if your resource.cfg does only contain PackedFile Mods/Packages/*.package! Some Mods will create subfolders when you unzip them. If they do not show up or work this may be the reason why!

I've followed all instructions as far as I can tell, but STILL none of my mods seem to take effect.
Install directory, not documents, dxdll, resource.cfg, mods folder, packages folder, patched up to date.
Running through Origin and desperate for CAS mod of some kind (trying to cure Blue eye) less bird whistling and less sword fights. Otherwise I'm perfectly happy.
Have Pirates and Nobles, also through Origin.

Hey, first of all thanks for that page. However I can't figure out how to install mods and seem to fail at the very first step. By patching do you mean: get the latest version? Or is there a patch I need to download? I bought the game last friday via origin (inkl. Pirates), created the mods and packages folder as well as game and bin, added cfg, etc. It doesn't work... any help appreciated.